you all. i am katie phang. welcome to the katie phang show. we are going to start today s show with a capitol hill countdown as lawmakers have just four more days of work before they head home for the holidays. i m joining you live from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. we have lots of news to cover and lots of questions to answer. let s get started. failure to lead the president of a prominent ivy league university steps down amid public outrage after a disastrous congressional hearing on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses. we re going to go inside the fallout ahead and a live report from capitol hill. state of emergency catastrophic storms strike tennessee, leaving a trail of death and destruction. six people, including at least one child, are dead, and dozens more are injured. we are live on the ground in the storm zone. no, i am not a threat. i will save democracy. the threat is crooked it joe biden. plus, day one dictator says he will save demo
Because a supreme court justice sam alito wrote an opinion that the right likes, the threat of violence comes from the right, what is your reaction to that? the democrat party is wallowing in delusions at this point and doesn t know how to get out of them. the notion that there might be a right wing violence in response to a decision that the right overwhelmingly likes makes no sense and beyond that, let s think about who we re talking about here with the pro life movement. those are not tiny molotov cocktails. they re candles. that s what they want to protect life and protect people. the democrat party has never had a reckoning with the fact that there was a longstanding insurrection in the year 2020 and it was blm and antifa and egged on by people in the press. there was mass looting and hysteria across the country. they never had a moment of intraspec shun. now they want to collection us
With jen psaki. the fact that they wouldn t take one moment to establish the most basic principal that our supreme court justices are saying, their safety is in violation and we have it as nonpartisan. tensions are high. don t say something like that when tensions are rising. jen psaki doesn t want to upset the democratic base that are enraged and melting down. if you have any principles about sacred democracy and our institutions, lay off the supreme court. don t threaten people. don t put up addresses. they are the party of the mobn t i don t think they ll turn that off any time soon. there s real reason for concern unfortunately. tucker: yeah, seems dangerous. buck, thanks. thanks, tucker. tucker: so every moment that we re talking about stuff like this, we re not talking about the economy, which for most people is the core question. there s shortages of basic
It s time for people to be living and to make the decisions they want. regarding vaccination. and to, enjoy that many people have natural immunity. a test for your grandmother is more valuable than weekly tests for third graders, what do you make of his comments? well the problem is, it s, it doesn t follow good public health thinking and it does not follow a, the appropriate virology or medicine that is going on. bottom line is, little children can get covid and yes, they are much more like toll have mild symptoms but they can then spread it to older individuals and if we blind ourselves to certain individuals in our population assuming they will have mild disease, we are going to have multiple consequences. first of all, some percentage of those individuals will get severely ill. number two, they will continue
Continuous problem when there s so much transmission. senator rubio said that people are testing positive who were admitted to the hospital for other cases. are you seeing that? let me just be clear. we are, we have almost as high a level of patients with covid in our hospitals as we did during the delta peak in august here. so, we are, we are almost at the same level as we were in august. now, yes, some of those individuals presented with noncovid symptoms initially. but that doesn t mean that can covid is not contributed to the reason they are in hospital. we are trying to tease out exactly who s who, and how we had to treat each individual. you are on the miami-dade public school medical task